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Who Are ‘Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus’? Taylor Swift Lyrics Explained
Taylor Swift refers to ‘Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus’ on ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,’ but who are they?
Getty Images (5) The title of Taylor Swift’s 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, hinted there’d be plenty of literary references throughout her new songs. Swift appears to be alluding to an unnamed lover who cheated on her — either physically or emotionally — with someone whose name doesn’t matter, hence the “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus.” (The idea is similar to the West Side Story character Anybodys, who is an ambiguous member of the Jets whose gender is not specified.) While fans have attempted to decode which one of Swift’s ex-lovers this song is about, they’re simply musings on the internet — and for this track, she focuses more on what happened that tore them apart.
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